Top 17 Frights Quotes
#1. The worst of Bath was the number of its plain women ... He had frequently observed, as he walked, that one handsome face would be followed by thirty, or five-and-thirty frights.
Jane Austen
#2. I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights.
Jane Austen
#3. The desire to create literature leads to frights, grunts, and coy looks.
Mason Cooley
#4. He frequently observed, as he walked out, that one handsome face would be followed by thirty, or five-and-thirty frights; and once, as he stood in a shop in Bond Street, he had counted eighty-seven women go by, one after another, without there being a tolerable face among them.
Jane Austen
#5. I had slept nothing all night, making ghosts for myself, filling my mind with them and giving myself pale frights. All the ghosts had a different punishment for me, some of them shocking indeed.
Richard Llewellyn
#6. It is amazing to me, now, how such wild imaginings and philosophies - inspired by a night charged with frights and calamities - made such perfectly good sense to Owen Meany and me, but good friends are nothing to each other if they are not supportive.
John Irving
#7. Reading a great book causes jolts and frights.
Mason Cooley
#8. Whom hatred frights, let him not dream of sovereignty.
Ben Jonson
#9. Intelligence is predatory, but full of fastidiousness and frights.
Mason Cooley
#10. The world waits for you with all its beauty, but also its frights and its pain.
Meredith Hall
#11. It's a bad place, brother. All ruins and bare rock. Only ever seen it from a distance and it gave me the frights. Something in the air (...) Just feels bad. The Lonak call it Maars Nir-Uhlin Sol, the Place of the Stolen Souls.
Anthony Ryan
#12. The screech-owl, with ill-boding cry, Portends strange things, old women say; Stops every fool that passes by, And frights the school-boy from his play.
Mary Wortley Montagu
#13. I think that, in all of my time, I got just one fan letter, from an NFL fullback named Darian Barnes. NFL players might not have enough time for my books.
George R R Martin
#14. My teaching career started with me teaching comp at a very small school in Buffalo. And I was terrible at that point. They never should have hired me.
Rob Roberge
#15. The only reason anything's wrong is because someone says it is.
Rose Foster
#16. Behind every great man there is a surprised woman.
Maryon Pearson
#17. I like it when my mother smiles. And I especially like it when I make her smile.
Adriana Trigiani
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